Salad Ali Jelle

Salad Ali Jelle is the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of the Republic of Somalia. He was a political figure in the War in Somalia (2006–2009) fought between the TFG and its ally Ethiopia against the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).

On January 5, 2007, after the victory over the ICU and the Fall of Mogadishu, Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, accompanied by Salad Ali Jelle, held a review of the former troops of the government who took part in the campaign to retake the capital. Their speeches relayed the urgency of Disarmament in Somalia (see Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration).